Risk of long covid in patients with pre-existing chronic respiratory diseases: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Paul Terry, R Eric Heidel, Alexandria Q Wilson, Rajiv Dhand

“…Background An estimated 10–30% of people with COVID-19 experience debilitating long-term symptoms or long covid. …”
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Determinants of Intraocular Pressure (IOP) of Glaucoma Patients at Felege Hiwot Referral Hospital, Bahir Dar, Ethiopia by Mitiku Wale Muluneh, Shewayiref Geremew Gebremichael

“…A linear mixed-effects model for intraocular pressure change was used for data analysis. Result. The estimated coefficient of fixed effect intercept was 25.1829, which indicates that the average IOP of the patients was 25.1829 mmHg at baseline time by excluding all covariates in the model (p value <0.0001), age (β=0.07, 95%CI 0.03, 0.11), urban residence (β = −1.60, 95%CI −2.84, −0.36), family history of glaucoma (β = 4.90, 95%CI 3.38–6.43), timolol and pilocarpine medication (β = −2.02, 95%CI −4.01, −0.03), cup-disk ratio >0.7 (β = 2.60, 95% CI 1.24–3.96), and follow-up time (β = −0.34, 95%CI −0.47, −0.21) were significantly associated with intraocular pressure of glaucoma patients. …”
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Effect of ZnO on the Thermal Properties of Tellurite Glass by H. A. A. Sidek, S. Rosmawati, B. Z. Azmi, A. H. Shaari

“…The acoustic Debye temperature and the softening temperature (Ts) were estimated based on the longitudinal (VL) and shear ultrasonic (Vs) wave velocities propagated in each glass sample. …”
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Examining infant and child death clustering among families in the cross-sectional and nationally representative Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey 2017–2018 by Shobhit Srivastava, Ronak Paul, Rashmi Rashmi

“…We used Gompertz shared frailty model to control the correlation between event times at the mother level and capture the unobserved risks in infant and child deaths.Outcome measures We estimated two sets of survival regression models where the failure event is the survival status of the index child during the infancy period, that is, from birth to 11 months, and childhood period, that is, between 12 and 59 months, respectively. …”
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Association of Tobacco Smoking with Physical Fitness of Military Males in Taiwan: The CHIEF Study by Fang-Ying Su, Sheng-Huei Wang, Henry Horng-Shing Lu, Gen-Min Lin

“…The effective sample size estimated was 1,230 participants, as the margin of error was ±3% at the 99% confidence level. …”
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Genetic diversity of the Aporrectodea caliginosa complex in Russia by S. V. Shekhovtsov, E. V. Golovanova, N. E. Bazarova, Yu. N. Belova, D. I. Berman, E. A. Derzhinsky, M. P. Shashkov, S. E. Peltek

“…The genetic diversity of lineage 2 significantly exceeded that of lineage 3, and its estimated divergence time was almost three times as high. …”
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The changing burden of gout in adults aged 70 and above based on the global burden of disease 2019 by Yang Yang, Zhong Liu

“…We evaluated temporal trends and regional disparities by calculating the estimated annual percentage change (EAPCs).ResultsGlobally, the number of older adults individuals affected by gout increased from 5,316,210 cases in 1990 to 15,666,063 cases in 2019. …”
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Male Gender Is Associated with Lymph Node Metastasis but Not with Recurrence in Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma by Jiang Zhu, Rui Huang, Ping Yu, Haoyu Ren, Xinliang Su

“…Kaplan–Meier curves were used to estimate recurrence-free survival (RFS). Results. A total of consecutive 2536 patients were enrolled in this study. …”
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Comparing the safety and efficacy of remimazolam-based total intravenous anesthesia versus volatile agent-based anesthesia: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials by Ji-In Park, Hyo-Seok Na, Keum-O Lee, Jung-Hee Ryu, Hyun-Jung Shin

“…Secondary outcomes included incidence of bradycardia, extubation time, duration in the post-anesthesia care unit hospital stay, and incidence of postoperative nausea and/or vomiting (PONV). We estimated the relative risk (RR) and mean difference with 95% CIs using a random-effects model. …”
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Retrospective comparison of cortical bone trajectory and pedicle screw in lumbar fusion for patients over 80, including sagittal balance: a single-center study by Giwuk Jang, Seungjun Ryu, Sanghoon Lee, Jeong-yoon Park, Dong-ah Shin, Hoyeol Zhang

“…The Oswestry Disability Index was significantly lower in the cortical bone trajectory group than in the pedicle screw group at 6 months postoperatively (P = 0.05). The estimated blood loss and operation time were significantly lower in the cortical bone trajectory group than in the pedicle screw group (P = 0.017 and P < 0.001, respectively). …”
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The role of Beringia in human adaptation to Arctic conditions based on results of genomic studies of modern and ancient populations by B. A. Malyarchuk

“…Approximately 20 thousand years ago the Beringian populations began to form, and the duration of their existence in relative isolation is estimated at about 5 thousand years. Thus, the adaptation of the Beringians to the Arctic conditions could have taken several millennia. …”
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Shear strength and behavior of eco-friendly RC corbels by Kadhim Z. Naser, Abdulamir Atalla Almayah, Abdulnasser M. Abbas

“…The results indicated that using the equations proposed by Hwang et al. and Chetchotisak et al. provided more accurate estimates compared to the other models, yielding a coefficient of variations (COVs) of 4.8 and 5.1 %, respectively. …”
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Dietary phytochemical index and the risk of gallstone disease: a case-control study by Mohammad Abdulmohsin Jebur, Ghufran Lutfi Ismaeel, Haitham Mukhklif Salim, Ammar Hussein Ahmed, Israa Habeeb Naser

“…Abstract Backgroundsː Dietary phytochemical index (DPI) is an inexpensive method for estimating the amounts of phytochemicals in foods. No study has investigated the association between DPI and gallstones disease (GSD). …”
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Risk factor assessment of prediabetes and diabetes based on epidemic characteristics in new urban areas: a retrospective and a machine learning study by Li Xu, Xiangcheng Sun, Ning Wang, Yiyi Wang, Yan Li, Chuan Zhang

“…Our machine learning model was used for disease risk estimation. After the model was trained, the precision and recall rate of the prediction reached 0.76 and 0.86, respectively, with an F1 score of 0. 81. …”
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Application of an Accelerometric System for Determination of Stiffness during a Hopping Task by Artur Struzik, Jerzy Zawadzki, Andrzej Rokita, Bogdan Pietraszewski

“…The relationships between the vertical stiffness (in the countermovement and take-off phases) and the stiffness estimated using the Myotest allow us to conclude that despite the significantly overestimated stiffness value, the Myotest accelerometer can still be used for determination of the stiffness trends, e.g., following training. …”
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Rolling Bearing Fault Diagnosis Based on a Synchrosqueezing Wavelet Transform and a Transfer Residual Convolutional Neural Network by Zihao Zhai, Liyan Luo, Yuhan Chen, Xiaoguo Zhang

“…This approach transforms the one-dimensional vibration signal into time–frequency diagrams using an SWT based on complex Morlet wavelet basis functions, which redistributes (squeezes) the values of the wavelet coefficients at different localized points in a time–frequency plane to the estimated instantaneous frequencies. This allows the energy to be more fully concentrated in actual corresponding frequency components. …”
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Study on association of nuclear factor kappa B gene polymorphism with bacterial load in pulmonary tuberculosis by Pallavi Baliarsingh, Pratima Kumari Sahu, Paresh Nath Mohanty, Roma Rattan, Monalisa Mohapatro

“…Sputum from cases and blood samples from cases and controls were collected. Bacterial load estimation was done from the sputum sample. Genomic deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) was extracted for NF-κB gene. …”
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Regulatory roles of eugenol in paraquat-altered SNCA/LZTS3/MAPT in the cerebellum of Wistar rats by Obinna Onwe Uchewa, Augustine Oseloka Ibegbu, Samuel Okoronkwo Okafor, Joseph Alo Nwafor, Ogugua Augustine Egwu

“…Motor impairments were determined using wire string and beam-walk; biomarkers were estimated using cerebellar homogenates, while frozen cerebellum was used to study LZTS3, MAPT, and SNCA gene expression. …”
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Improving fluoroprobe sensor performance through machine learning by D. Lafer, A. Sukenik, T. Zohary, O. Tal

“…To monitor phytoplankton dynamics efficiently, fluorescence sensors offer rapid and high-throughput estimates of chlorophyll-a concentrations, a widely used proxy for phytoplankton biomass. …”
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Experimental Study of Size Effects on the Deformation Strength and Failure Characteristics of Hard Rocks under True Triaxial Compression by Qiang Han, Yaohui Gao, Yan Zhang

“…In addition, the method of estimating elastic strain is established by analyzing the relationship between the size of the rock sample σ2 and the elastic strain under TTC.…”
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